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Posted By: hankron

My Elite Giants reprint is not a real photo, but a litho with a dot pattern. Also, it has abosutely no toning.

To answer Paul's question, one can tell the difference between a vintage photo and the modern version made from the original negative. In many cases, the modern version would be obvious to the non-photo collector as it simply looks too bright and new. In other cases, one would look at the paper, stamping, aging, etc to determine age .... Also, most years later real photo reprints are not made from original negatives, and the images will be of noticably lesser quality.